14 regions of Augustan Rome: Difference between revisions

Evidence of regions in Rome before Augustus is limited.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Goodman |first=Penelope J. |date=2020 |title=In omnibus regionibus? The fourteen regions and the city of Rome |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/papers-of-the-british-school-at-rome/article/abs/in-omnibus-regionibus-the-fourteen-regions-and-the-city-of-rome/48078411BBE0974903F1DD4FFF5DD650 |journal=Papers of the British School at Rome |language=en |volume=88 |pages=119–150 |doi=10.1017/S0068246219000382 |s2cid=212842159 |issn=0068-2462 |archive-url=https://eprintsweb.whiterosearchive.acorg/web/20220810225539/https://www.cambridge.ukorg/151453core/journals/papers-of-the-british-school-at-rome/article/abs/in-omnibus-regionibus-the-fourteen-regions-and-the-city-of-rome/48078411BBE0974903F1DD4FFF5DD650 |archive-date=3010 August 2022 |access-date=10 August 2022 |url-status=bot: Septemberunknown 2019}}</ref> Writing in the mid-40s BC, [[Marcus Terentius Varro]] describes four 'partes urbis', referring to them individually as a ‘regio’ with both names and numbers: I Suburana, II Esquilina, III Collina and IV Palatina.<ref name=":0" />

Regio III took its name from the sanctuary of [[Isis]], in the area of the modern Labicana street, containing the valley that was to be the future site of the [[Colosseum]], and parts of the [[Oppian Hill|Oppian]] and [[Esquiline Hill|Esquiline]] hills.

In the 180s, a bank and exchange for [[Christians]] operated in the area.<ref>Peter Lampe, ''Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries'' (Continuum, 2003), p. 42 [https://books.google.com/books?id=vOoxGmc1DGAC&pg=PA42&dq=%22Piscina+publica%22&hlpg=en&ei=iw-FTJjyN4ibnAe2md3WAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=39&ved=0COYBEOgBMCY#v=onepage&q=%22Piscina%20publica%22&f=falsePA42 online.]</ref>

Regio XIV (the region "across the Tiber") contained [[Tiber Island]] and all the parts of Rome west beyond the Tiber.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.academia.edu/31134009/Larea_meridionale_della_Regio_XIV_Transtiberim_in_et%C3%A0_romana_storia_degli_scavi_e_cenni_di_inquadramento_topografico_in_M._Funghi_-_W._Troiano_a_cura_di_Santa_Maria_dellOrto._Il_complesso_architettonico_trasteverino._Studi._Progetti._Restauri_Roma_2015_pp._3-14 |title=L'area meridionale della Regio XIV Transtiberim in età romana: storia degli scavi e cenni di inquadramento topografico |firstfirst1=M. |lastlast1=Funghi |first2=W. |last2=Troiano |chapter=Santa Maria dell'Orto. Il complesso architettonico trasteverino. |publisher=Studi. Progetti. Restauri |location=Roma |year=2015 |pages=3–14 |via=[[Academia.edu]]}}</ref> This is modern [[Trastevere]].